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Fox News published digitally altered and misleading photos on stories about Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in what photojournalism experts called a clear violation of ethical standards for news organizations.
As part of a package of stories Friday about the zone, where demonstrators have taken over several city blocks on Capitol Hill after Seattle police abandoned the East Precinct, Fox's website for much of the day featured a photo of a man standing with a military-style rifle in front of what appeared to be a smashed retail storefront.
The image was actually a mashup of photos from different days, taken by different photographers — it was done by splicing a Getty Images photo of an armed man, who had been at the protest zone June 10, with other images from May 30 of smashed windows in downtown Seattle. Another altered image combined the gunman photo with yet another image, making it appear as though he was standing in front of a sign declaring "You are now entering Free Cap Hill."
[...] The image, as displayed on the Fox News website, was spliced with other photos, including a photo of a smashed retail storefront in May, making it look as though the scene was all playing out concurrently in the autonomous zone. "It is definitely Photoshopped," confirmed Ryder. "To use a photo out of context in a journalistic setting like that seems unethical."
[...] "I think it's disgraceful propaganda and terribly misrepresentative of documentary journalism in times like this, when truth-telling and accountability is so important," said Kenny Irby, a photojournalism ethics educator and consultant. "There is no attribution. There is no acknowledgment of the montage, and it's terribly misleading."
Akili Ramsess, executive director of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), said ethical standards clearly prohibit alteration of photos in news accounts.
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(2020-06-12) Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @02:40PM (6 children)
Fox news caught lying to their viewers.
This is exactly the same as what CNN does, except with CNN it would have been a photo-shopped photo of Trump altered to continue their anti-trump agenda.
The 24hour news channels are no longer news channels. They are 24 hour entertainment channels.
Fox publishes entertainment that the consertive leaning viewership consumes.
CNN publishes entertainment that the liberal leaning viewership consumes.
But neither of them is presenting news anymore, not by a long shot.
But both are lying to you every day, and trying to program you to believe their presented opinion of their choice of entertainment for the day.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:16PM (2 children)
"This is exactly the same as what CNN does, except with CNN it would have been a photo-shopped photo of Trump altered to continue their anti-trump agenda."
It would have been? Your thesis would have been much more credible if you provided an example of such manipulation.
"Fox publishes entertainment that the consertive leaning viewership consumes."
And the problem with that thesis is that the late night comedy folks are much more entertaining than Fox "News". And, unfortunately, often more informative.
"But both are lying to you every day, and trying to program you to believe their presented opinion of their choice of entertainment for the day."
Oh, stop with the false equivalence already! You are being lied to by Fox "News". If you are a regular viewer grow a pair and demand better from them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:37PM (1 child)
fine people hoax. They dragged that one on for so long. ALL you have to do is watch the next 30 seconds of that speech and know what he said. Out of context is easy.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." - Cardinal Richelieu
Out of context is the bread and butter of these organizations.
False equivalence hardly. They both are the same type of 'newsertainment'. Have been for years. They serve entertainment. Take for example the riots/protests. Does CNN report on the 180 businesses burned to the ground in MPLS? The hundreds of people now out of jobs because of that? Or do they focus on something else? They are drawing your eyes away from the real story for the one they want to tell. It is a very old trick used by story writers to cover up plot holes. Fox on the other hand is focusing on the LARP going on in WA thinking it is the end of the world. Yet they ignore that we have borderline militarized huge swaths of our police force and have in many ways stripped them on accountability.
People like to pick sides in a fight usually. But both 'sides' here are acting the total loon jobs. CNN more than Fox and Fox was already bat shit cra-cra.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2020, @03:15AM
"fine people hoax."
I'll just leave this [youtu.be] right here (with all the *smirk* "context" you could ever hope for).
"They dragged that one on for so long. ALL you have to do is watch the next 30 seconds of that speech and know what he said. Out of context is easy."
Or maybe people saw what he said--in context--and concluded that he has a hard time unequivocally calling out neo-nazis.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:19PM
*citation needed
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @03:24PM (1 child)
To add to that Fox news around 9/11 went to that crazy format. Before that they were well dull and boring. They changed it up to that format to pull in viewers. It worked.
Around 2009 CNN did the same move but more along the lines of 'hold my beer fox' kind of way. CNN wants to pretend they are not yellow journalism. They literally fired their investigation staff and kept the talking heads and hired a batch of young writers fresh out of school (notice I did not say journalists). CNN thought Jon Stewart and Fox News were the future of news. Mr Stewart had a funny writing staff and a formula. John Oliver now has that writing staff applying that formula. It is a form of hypnosis and repetition with funny bits to edge you into views you normally would not take on yourself. It is a very effective technique. The writers at CNN do not understand that formula. Fox news is a talking head pundit yell over each other org. But they have enough sense to have others from the opposing side to argue. CNN puts actors in that spot and creates straw-man attacks. Again they do not understand the formula.
They both have been such utter trash for so long now it is a joke. You can not take anything they say seriously.
These people care not for us. They tell us lies. Then expect us to think it is news worthy. We are being manipulated wholesale and there are at least 8 groups fighting it out who is going to be 'in charge'. Here is a hint it does not involve us. We are not invited.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hBv7ue8icQ [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTS5XsZe9Jg [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSDClxjcR-4 [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @09:58PM
Really? All I know is Alex Becker was boring me so much, I followed a link on his You Tube rants to John Oliver and got a near instant dopamine hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4cea5oObY [youtube.com]